Kontakt 7.7 Release Update

Adil_NI · 2023-11-08T17:29:24+00:00

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Hi all,

We are delighted to announce that Kontakt 7.7.0 is now available to download via Native Access! This release introduces a handful of improvements to the fullscreen Browser, as well as some general refinements to navigation and overall user experience, and a handful of bug fixes (including the CPU spikes that were introduced with the 7.6.1 update). Here’s a brief explanation of the workflow changes you can expect in 7.7.0.

Browser improvements

We’ve significantly enhanced the text search behaviour of the fullscreen Browser that was introduced in Kontakt 7. This now accommodates partial and full string matching within the names of libraries, presets, vendors, tags or other metadata. Text-based search queries will now find results far more frequently, resulting in fewer cases of no results being found. Examples:

Searching for “electric guitar” will find presets with Type = Guitar and Subtype = Electric
Searching for “acid bass” will find presets containing both “acid” and “bass” in their name - even if separated by a space (e.g. “Acid Tube Bass” from Kontakt Factory Library 2)
Searching for “sym tru” will find the preset “Trumpet” from Symphony Essentials Brass

The “New Instruments for you” panel at the bottom of the fullscreen Browser also offers alternative Instruments that match your search query, in addition to those found in your library for further creative possibilities. Clicking on these opens the corresponding webpage, where you can learn more and listen to audio demos.

Navigation improvements

We’ve reworked Kontakt’s application header for better readability, and access to key functions. Kontakt now has three main entry points:

FILE: the main menu, which includes options, purging, and hardware connectivity
LIBRARY: the fullscreen Browser
VIEW: switch between Single View and Rack View, configure layout and Zoom, and setting a default view (e.g. mode, layout, zoom) for new instances when Kontakt is running as a plug-in

This article explains how to use the “Set current view as default” function: https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/14639260981533

Full list of changes:

ADDED Simplified application header for efficient access to key functions
File, Library and View have dedicated text labels
Single View / Rack View toggle is now found in View menu
Options is now found File menu
ADDED Text search enhancements to full-screen Browser, allowing searches across full or partial names of libraries, instruments, presets, tags and more
ADDED Search results display additionally available libraries in “New Instruments for you” panel
ADDED Option to display fullscreen Browser for new Instances in Rack view under Options > Interface (note: Browser is always shown in Single View)
ADDED 50% zoom setting
IMPROVED Double-clicking a preset in Files tab, Libraries tab or Quick-Load will now replace the preset loaded in the currently selected slot, instead of adding it to the Rack
IMPROVED Access fullscreen Browser by clicking Kontakt logo in application header (About Box accessed via NI logo)
FIXED Browser text entry no longer intercepted by DAW when Kontakt is hosted as a plug-in inside of Logic Pro
FIXED Intermittent CPU spikes on macOS (introduced in Kontakt 7.6.1)
FIXED Regression in KSP message logging performance when Developer Options are enabled (introduced in Kontakt 7.5.0) causing CPU spikes in certain 8dio libraries
FIXED RAM footprint no longer increases after prolonged use
FIXED Instrument focus strip in instrument header now updates when using previous / next buttons within edit mode
FIXED Correct visual state for Library button when instantiating Kontakt
REMOVED "Batch resave" and "Batch collect/Compress samples" options in File menu no longer appear when Kontakt is hosted as a plug-in

Happy updating! We're keeping this thread open for a week, until next Tuesday, November 14, 2023. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Best,

Your Kontakt Team

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Comments

Alex-S49

Not seeing the update available in my Native Access yet.

Is this a regional roll-out? I'm in the UK

tempsperdu

delioroman

Am I the only one who despises that Shop link? Can we at least get the option to hide it in 7.7.1? For us who don’t need it showing all the time

Certainly not, no-one wants it apart from whichever totally misguided soul thought it was a good idea.

As others have said, this certainly doesn't look good for NI's understanding of its user base, nor inspires any confidence in where NI may be heading.

Syncopator

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/106885#Comment_106885

NA is nonfunctional in Sonoma for me, as well.

Main studio Mac runs Ventura. But I keep a copy of Kontakt on my MacBook Pro, and after upgrading to Sonoma, Kontakt 7 "forgot" it was authorized, and NA refuses to install anything.

I'm surprised to hear that NA is working in Sonoma for some users.

Vic Angelo

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/107108#Comment_107108

Yeah the forced ads were terrible idea, but that have promised to address ot in the next update.

stans

Crashed 3 times as soon as I loaded new instruments. Getting it to display in a useful way took far too long as well.

Stop with the "features" and make this software work again.

chuckgreenjr

Please, Please, Please NI… I can’t believe that you have lowered yourself to producing billboards on the software that I have purchased. This is NOT acceptable behavior. As a professional artist, I absolutely DO NOT want to be distracted with advertisement when I am creating. Loose the greed and start thinking and putting your efforts into developing things with the end users interest in mind. If I want to be distracted with advertising, I can just sign on to facebook or YouTube or watch 35 minutes of actual content on a 1 hour television broadcast. Please not in the studio !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HisStudio4Ever

Greetings NI Team, I’m currently very excited about the new Kontakt 7. It appears to be a great upgrade to the whole NI suite. Thank you. But now, if I may, I’m very frustrated with the “Support” networks response times and detailed help. I’ll explain: I’m unable to download Native Access\and thus Kontakt 7 due to download issues that “none” of the NI wizards or two support people have been able to resolve. I know your you all are very dedicated and sincere. For that I’m greatful.

If this feedback can get to your support department and eventually find me and my much needed resolve from your techs, my opinion of your products and support will increase greatly. My ticket numbers are as follows: 4105593 and 4098987.

Persons by the name os, Cliona and Neal have said they will “follow this to the end!!!” But I’m not getting responses. Thank you so much for you assistance.

Art Phinney /. NI user since 2015

art.phinney.m@gmail.com

AxeHandle

I'm a Windows user. Currently using Windows 11, my computer has an i7 with 32GB RAM, and SSD m.2 drives.

The time it takes Kontakt 7.x to fully load or it's VST to get scanned is ridiculous, my computer cold boots quicker.

Kontakt 6 doesn't have these issues.

I've already contacted support and followed all the recommendations and initially the recommendations seemed to work - until I reloaded my Quick-Load libraries. Yes resetting everything**, deleting registry settings, deleting system program files, etc. did help somewhat - but it didn't quite fix things. Kontact 7 still loads too slow - we're now talking 3+ minutes instead of 5+ minutes.

Why does Kontakt 7 need to rescan all the Player and QuickLoad libraries on startup? This information needs to be more effectively cached and only fully scanned when the program is updated or when requested by the user (i.e. add a menu item for that).

**In regards to engaging in the global reset that I and many other Kontakt have had to do per support -Kontakt needs a menu item to handle this; end users should not have to manually delete registry entries and purge system files to file program issues.

slohrisch

Am I the only one that uses Kontakt as a sound designer? I like being able to map samples to different keys, and then experimenting with pitch, time stretching, oscillators and looping. I'm not sure if there's much in the way of features that can be added to Kontakt for sound designers, but equal-power crossfade looping would make the looping more painless, and fixing a bug I reported in the sample slicer would be some nice QoL improvements. If any of the new features are more geared towards sound designers, I'd love to hear about them.

Russellmus

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/107112#Comment_107112

Shortly after I posted that I installed Native Access 1.14.1 (accessible via Help - Legacy Installers in NA) and that worked. Downloads were very slow but I managed to get everything updated.

So the old pre-silicon version works better than the newest made for silicon version, nice!

Russellmus

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/106952#Comment_106952

Latest version with full disk access yes. The trick was to use an oooold version from years back (which I didn't even grant full disk access to).

Curious how the latest version is so hit and miss for different people.

mykejb

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/107107#Comment_107107

Nope it's not regional or anything. It's showing for me and I'm in the UK too

-- Mike

sacer11

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/107129#Comment_107129

It seems that Kontakt scans on every start up your plugins. Deleting some XML files has fasten up my loading time from 4minutes to only one minute. That’s a complete disaster, I have downgraded Komplete Kontrol, Battery4, Maschine and Guitar Rig6

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/9538/kontakt-7-very-very-long-to-launch/p6

tempsperdu

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/107173#Comment_107173

My times for Maschine and Komplete Kontrol used to be 8 minutes. Maschine's still is, but the recent Komplete Kontrol just causes havoc with my system. The humour of it does start to wear a tad thin.................

mykejb

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/107204#Comment_107204

My initial scan times for Maschine & KK are long - no idea exactly how long as I usually start one then go and watch a movie or two. Once the original scan is done it's not too bad, unless Waves drop an update at which point it's another movie :)

-- Mike

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